Poetry is a release of something previously unknown into the visible. You write to invite that, to make of yourself a gathering of the unexpected and, with luck, of the unexpectable. ~ Jane Hirshfield — Felicity Plunkett (@FelicPlunkett) July 21, 2018
Or after 50. — Lee Potts ? (@LeePottsPoet) July 22, 2018
Ya gotta vote, guys. Seriously. https://t.co/BjowiObMWm — Keith Ellison (@keithellison) July 22, 2018
|￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣| There is no set age you have to publish a book by, writing dreams don’t expire|＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿| (\__/) || (•ㅅ•) || / づ — Eric Smith (@ericsmithrocks) July 20, 2018
Let the matador die an old man in bed, surrounded by a loving family, after a long, fulfilling life. — Lee Potts ? (@LeePottsPoet) July 21, 2018
"There are verb tenses in writing that are not taught in schools. These are tenses that one learns instead when one grows older and knows that things will either be or not be, when one finds out that one might have been or might not have been something or other." @JennyBoully — C Kubasta (@CKubastathePoet) […]
Libraries are our happy place. pic.twitter.com/sZ8uk9RYX8 — goodreads (@goodreads) July 21, 2018
Last Spring, I taught a grad class called WRITING THE DIVINE charting the past 43 centuries of spiritual poetry. In 2019, Penguin Classics will publish an anthology based on those course texts, texts I selected to build a global (not overwhelmingly Western / male) conversation!!! pic.twitter.com/VqzN51Yc3g — Kaveh Akbar (@KavehAkbar) July 19, 2018
A quote for the ages: "when the generation that survived the war is no longer with us, we'll find out whether we have learned from history" – Angela Merkel today https://t.co/XDqjHCEjEk — Jeremy Cliffe (@JeremyCliffe) July 20, 2018
Sometimes I need to look at all the drafts a finished poem to remind myself that the crap I'm writing today won't necessarily remain crap. — Lee Potts ? (@LeePottsPoet) July 21, 2018